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BUENOS AIRES -- A court in Argentina on Tuesday convicted two former Ford Motor executives and sentenced them to prison for helping the country's military dictators kidnap and torture 24 [...]

THE HAGUE -- A court in the Netherlands on Friday convicted an aide to a former Ethiopian dictator and sentenced him to life in prison for war crimes carried out [...]

DAKAR, Sénégal -- La semaine dernière, les acteurs du procès de Hissène Habré se sont retrouvés ici pour leurs plaidoiries finales devant les Chambres africaines extraordinaires (CAE), un tribunal créé [...]

A Peruvian judge has ordered the former military dictator Francisco Morales Bermdez to stand trial in the 1978 abductions of 13 opponents. He is suspected of having the 13, including [...]

MEXICO CITY -- A Guatemalan court ruled on Tuesday that the former dictator Gen. Efran Ros Montt must face a new genocide trial in the persecution of the Maya Ixil [...]

Government-backed experts have said the former Guatemalan dictator Jos Efran Rios Montt, 89, is mentally incompetent. A three-judge panel must now decide if a trial set for July 23 will [...]

MEXICO CITY -- Guatemala's highest court on Monday threw out the genocide conviction and prison sentence of the former dictator Gen. Efran Ros Montt. The decision by Guatemala's Constitutional Court [...]

THE conviction last Friday of the former Guatemalan dictator Efran Ros Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity is of monumental significance. It was the first time in [...]

GUATEMALA CITY -- Gen. Efran Ros Montt, the former dictator who ruled Guatemala during one of the bloodiest periods of its long civil war, faced the court trying him for [...]

The genocide trial of a former dictator of Guatemala, Gen. Efran Ros Montt, resumed Tuesday, 12 days after a judge ruled to annul the court proceedings. Guatemala's highest court has [...]

MEXICO CITY -- A Guatemalan judge on Thursday annulled the genocide trial against the former dictator Gen. Efran Ros Montt, a stunning ruling that could force prosecutors to begin the [...]

MEXICO CITY -- They were just children when Guatemalan soldiers rampaged through their villages, often killing their parents and siblings. Many fled to mountain forests, where they foraged for food [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Three emergency decrees issued in the 1970s by South Korea's dictator at the time, Park Chung-hee, were unconstitutional, the nation's Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday, in [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Jean-Claude Duvalier, the former dictator known as Baby Doc accused of bearing responsibility for the deaths, torture and the disappearance of hundreds of people, walked into a [...]

MEXICO CITY -- A Guatemalan judge on Monday ordered Efran Rios Montt, the former dictator, and his intelligence chief to stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity [...]

PARIS -- International judges in The Hague are hearing a complex case this week that boils down to a single and unusual question: which country has the right to try [...]

Judge Baltasar Garzon, who gained renown by indicting the former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet in 1998, went on trial Tuesday over his handling of a corruption investigation and denied [...]

Minneapolis TIME is running out for former government officials accused of murder, genocide and crimes against humanity. In the past few months, the final Serbian war-crimes fugitives were extradited to [...]

Los Angeles LIBYA'S rebel leaders say they want to try Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, if and when he is captured, in Libyan courts. In principle, Libyans deserve the satisfaction that only [...]

CAIRO -- The headlines of newspapers on sale in a subway station once called Mubarak, and now renamed Martyrs', captured the moment Tuesday that could prove one of the most [...]

Haiti's troubles turned even more surreal over the weekend when the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, showed up in Port-au-Prince after nearly 25 years of exile. After [...]

A court in Paris on Wednesday rejected a request for the release of the imprisoned former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega, who is serving a prison term in France after [...]

Russia's Parliament on Friday approved a statement holding Stalin responsible for ordering the 1940 murder of more than 20,000 Polish officers in a forest near the village of Katyn. Against [...]

PARIS -- The former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega was convicted Wednesday of money laundering and sentenced by a French judge to seven years in prison. Mr. Noriega, 76, was [...]

Prosecutors requested the maximum 10-year prison sentence on Wednesday for Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator convicted of laundering drug money. Mr. Noriega had been sentenced to 10 years on [...]

PARIS -- The three-day trial of the former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, convicted of laundering drug money, opened in Paris on Monday. Mr. Noriega, who is in his 70s, was [...]

A Paris appellate court on Friday rejected a request by the former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega to be freed from prison pending a late June trial, deeming him a [...]

PARIS After a six year extradition battle, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega arrived early Tuesday in France, where he was served with an international arrest warrant and is expected to [...]

After 32 years of ruling Indonesia with an iron fist and a grabbing hand, then-President Suharto was forced to step down in 1998. While gone from power, he clearly is […]

The deposed dictator of Panama, Manuel Antonio Noriega, will get a new hearing in Miami to try to avoid extradition to France from the United States, which American officials prefer […]

The president of Haiti, Rene Preval, rejected an apology from the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and said the government would ask a court to recover millions in state funds believed […]

Manuel Antonio Noriega, the deposed Panamanian strongman who is ending a 15-year prison sentence in Miami, can be extradited to France, where he faces charges of money laundering and up […]

Panama said it still wanted to try the former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega on homicide charges despite efforts to send him to France. Federal prosecutors in Miami filed papers to […]

When American soldiers woke Saddam Hussein in his cell near Baghdad airport at 3:55 a.m. last Saturday, they told him to dress for a journey to Baghdad. He had followed […]

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki predicted in a televised interview on Wednesday that former President Saddam Hussein would be hanged by the end of the year. Court officials said, however, […]

Nearly three years after being captured by American troops, Saddam Hussein faces the possibility of a death sentence on Sunday from the Iraqi court that has been trying him and […]

Gen. Augusto Pinochet was put under house arrest at his suburban Santiago mansion on charges including kidnapping, torture and murder at the infamous Villa Grimaldi secret detention center in the […]

The trial of Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants continued Monday, making some slow progress even though Mr. Hussein, in the 17th day of a hunger strike, and six of […]

The trial of Saddam Hussein should be a showcase for a better Iraq. It should clearly demonstrate that decades of secret trials and summary verdicts are giving way to a […]

An appeals court in Santiago voted to strip Gen. Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution in the investigation of $17 million he is said to have illegally obtained and deposited […]